Re: OT: Is your English good enough to make it in London?

From: Sceadu (aeonarcanum_at_NOhotSPAMmail.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:24:04 -0600

"Ben Finney" <bignose-hates-spam@and-benfinney-does-too.id.au> wrote in
message news:41faf244@duster.adelaide.on.net...
> Louise Bremner wrote On 29/01/05 11:53:
>> Maciej Katafiasz <mnews2@wp.pl> wrote:
>>> Louise Bremner wrote:
>>> > napurenon <napurenon@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> Only seems to work with Internet Explorer.
>>> >
>>> > You probably mean "Only seems to work with Internet Exploiter on a
>>> > WinDoze system".
>>> >
>>> > (And yes, I enjoy cheap ad homonym attacks.)
>
> Thanks for the giggle.
>
>>> Usually ad hominem ones work better, unless you really are using
>>> homonyms,
>>> but that doesn't seem to be the case above.
>>
>> It's fascinating to discover all the different flavo(u)rs of English in
>> this universe--I wonder which version pronounces "WinDoze" differently
>> from "Windows".
>
> I was raised on the particular UK-English taught in central South
> Australia. (Far more British accent than eastern states.)
>
> I say "windows" very similar to "windoze", but the former has a distinct
> rounding of the lips for "ows", the latter has only a mild glottal
> constriction for "oze".
>
> Almost identical, but the former comes out partway to "win-do~uus", the
> latter partway to "win-do~/e/s", with "/e/" being a schwa. (What's a
> convention to represent that in ASCII?)
>
> I think, though, that the "exploder" -> "exploiter" transform is what
> disqualifies the homonym claim.

Internet Exploder? Nice.

Sceadu

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